Sunday, May 29, 2011

These Mean Streets

Remember our friends across the street who put their house on the market? Unfortunately for them it hasn't sold but occasionally they get feedback from the realtor. My favorite was one looker who pronounced: (quote) It's a screwed up house, on a screwed up street, in a screwed up neighborhood. (End Quote)

Do you think he noticed that I managed to grow the tiniest radish in history?

Do you think he was threatened by my post about the thorns in the prickly pear cactus, now blooming beautifully, but full of weeds?

Or do you think he snuck over to my next door neighbor Nelda's house and saw what happened when she innocently planted her split leaf philodendron in the ground?

(Who knew?!? Did you know? What the heck is it?)

Half of the screwed up street was up early this morning, everyone working away in their crazy gardens, growing miniature vegetables, weapons of thumb destruction and (what?).

That's our neighborhood. Love us or leave us. It's a one way street; our way or the highway.

My radishes are smaller - as in 'none' on the end of a red root. For some reason, year after year, they hate me, even after switching around locations and planting times, and talking sweetly to them. Savor your bounty, as some of us go without.-Ray

Oo-er, missis! (As a certain bawdy comedian used to say...) Looks very like cuckoo pint (Arum Maculatum), aka Lords and Ladies, for obvious reasons, and you can find it everywhere in Britain, and also here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arum_maculatum.

Was that you eating soil with your baby radish?? No wonder that prospective buyer was alarmed.....

Wow. Well, "Screwed Up" will thankfully be settling elsewhere, but I must say, I now imagine your neighborhood as a magical storybook place. Thanks, "Screwed Up" ...couldn't have imagined such a wonder without you.

Ooh! I'm attempting to grow radishes for the first time on my deck - I've got a gazillion sprouts and now I have to find enough containers to be able to spread them out!! I'm even resorting to giving them away to anyone who will take them! Speaking of, you don't want any more radishes, do you? ;)

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It's spring and I'm living solo is a small but charming house with two kittens always ready for their closeups.
I spend all my spare time in the garden weeding and seeding.
I'm restructuring my life and learning to love it.